“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. – J Robert Oppenheimer.

In an email to the Guardian he says: "Climate change is no longer something we can aim to do something about in a few decades’ time, and that we must not only urgently reduce CO2 emissions but must urgently examine other ways of slowing global warming, such as the various geoengineering ideas that have been put forward."

Quote: “The Arctic is on track to be free of sea ice this year or next for the first time in more than 100,000 years”

Except, of course, the Arctic would have been free of ice in the summer all through the warm Holocene maximum, just 8,000 or so years ago. So all Wadhams is proving here, is that he is an fresher masquerading as an academic. But in my experience, this is standard fare for our modern neo-academia. Having gone through the peer review process, for my recent scince paper on ice ages, I was shocked by the general ignorance of some in the profession.

One professor (of biology?) said that because the concentration of CO2 (and presumably O2) did not change with altitude, plants (and animals) could not become progressively asphixiated with altitude. Yes, a professor who did not understand the difference between a concentration and a partial pressure. I did invite said professor to go to the top of Mt Everest, to see if this was true or not. While another professor of physics said that the axis of the Earth was seperate from the geographic north pole, and the axis circumnavigated the north pole during the precession of the equinox.

Wadhams is diplaying the same symptoms – a professor who has bluffed his way up the greasy pole of academia presumably through displaying the correct lefty politics, rather than understanding much in the way of real science.

Thank you for your honesty. I wish more scientists were as honest. I believe we’re heading for a cool down globally from the literature I’ve read from solar research and the natural ocean oscillations. If correct science will take a blow because of scientists like wadham

If in my job in the real world I had been as incompetent as Wadhams I would very quickly have been handed my P45. What is at about academia (or the civil service) that allows incompetence to flourish and even reach the top of the tree?

The Amazon page of his book : A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic – 1 Sep 2016..has a preview of a line in the book
“by the time this book is published, the Arctic may be free of ice for the first time in 10,000 years.” (it was mentioned in the R4 Today interview)
Does he waistcoat, and run around checking his pocket watch muttering “Oh dear! Oh dear! We shall be too late!”?

Anyway here’s the book blurb

Most of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world’s leading expert on sea ice, demonstrates in this book, even this assessment of the future is optimistic.

Wadhams has visited the Polar Regions more often than any other living scientist – 50 times since he was on the first ship to circumnavigate the Americas in 1970 – and has a uniquely authoritative perspective on the changes they have undergone and where those changes will lead. From his observations and the latest scientific research, he describes how dramatically sea ice has diminished over the past three decades, to the point at which, by the time this book is published, the Arctic may be free of ice for the first time in 10,000 years.

Wadhams shows how sea ice is the ‘canary in the mine’ of planetary climate change. He describes how it forms and the vital role it plays in reflecting solar heat back into space and providing an ‘air conditioning’ system for the planet. He shows how a series of rapid feedbacks in the Arctic region are accelerating change there more rapidly than almost all scientists – and political authorities – have previously realised, and the dangers of further acceleration are very real. (yeah right)

A Farewell to Ice is a report from the frontline of planetary change in the Arctic and Antarctic by a leading authority, presenting incontrovertible scientific data, but always in clear language which the layman can easily understand. It is one of the most important books published in recent years about the existential challenge which human civilization now faces.

So far the book only has 11 reviews all from his fan club of CAGW True Believers

It calls out BBC ‘balanced reporting’ on climate change for what it is – pandering to climate change flat earthers in the pay of some parts of the US oil industry

There is ONE real world and then there are the fantasy lands of the dooms day cults.

‘Currently the ice area is well over 4 Wadhams (1 million sq kilometers) thick. (One reader suggested using “Wadhams” as a unit for sea ice area in order to honor Peter Wadhams’s spectacularly failed prediction of an ice free Arctic by now.)’ – From Notrickszone today.

I think the rest of the warmist gang have abandoned Wadhams as even they realise he is talking drivel and damaging their cause. He even went as far as to claim that big oil funded hitmen were killing warmist ‘scientists’ after 3 deaths a few years ago. One happened just where I worked when a cyclist was tangled with a tipper truck and lost.

It appears to me that the Don Keiller and Ron Clutz comments above are the nails in the coffin of this professor’s credibility. It is frightening that he seems to be regarded as a leading expert when his knowledge is so clearly wanting.

Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
Another failed climate prediction from a failed climate ‘expert’.

Time to make climate charlatan’s like Wadham’s responsible for the blatant alarmism they spread. Falsehoods and fear-mongering that is gobbled up by alarmist mainstream media – BBC, ABC, CNN, Guardian et al and swallowed wholesale by a gullible public.

Maybe someone can explain why the Midwest, USA is getting pounded with so many monsoon like rains?

This past week, parts of northern Iowa got 10″ of rain in one afternoon. Here in Missouri, we’ve been getting pounded with heavy rains in the 4-9″ variety several times a year, an event that was unheard of 40 years ago.

At the same time, California is in the sixth year of drought while the Midwest is getting swamped.

Something has changed and we need to find out what it is, like cutting way back on the clear-cutting of hundreds of thousands of Amazon, Gabon and NW USA rain forests that is releasing an absurd amount of moisture back into the atmosphere.